The Way it was
The Way it was

Author: Adam Giesinger

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 488

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"This book is a documented family history. It traces my Giesinger ancestry from Vorarlberg in Austria, to Söllingen in Baden, to Alsace in France, to the Odessa region in southern Russia, to the United States, and finally to Canada."--Page ix.

The Dark Abyss of Exile
The Dark Abyss of Exile

Author: Ida Bender

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13:

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Ida Hollman, daughter of Dominik Hollmann (1899-1990), was born in Russia. Tells the story of her family's exile and hardships beginning with their deportation to Siberia in 1941.

Passionate Possessions of Faith
Passionate Possessions of Faith

Author: Robert Glen Guenther

Publisher: Robert Guenther

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780964147508

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The Guenther family appears to have originated in Switzerland. Members of the family converted to the Anabaptist movement and were forced to flee first to Moravia and later to the valley of the Vistula in Poland and west Prussia. Eventually members of the family became Mennonites and moved to the Ukraine where a number of Germans were settling. One of the Guenthers to move there was Franz Günther (1827-1900) who married Maria Warkentin and was the father of six children. In 1878 Franz, Maria and four of their children immigrated to America. They settled in South Dakota where one of the children, Cornelius F. Guenther (185301934) married Eva Dürksen and was the father of fourteen children. Their many descendants live throughout the United States.

Mary Neufeld and the Repphun Story
Mary Neufeld and the Repphun Story

Author: Herman A. Neufeld

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 248

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Mary Repphun Neufeld was born in Russia in 1905. Her parents had 19 children many of whom did not survive childhood in peasent Russia. In 1910 Mary was sent to work and live in the Neufeld home. Most of the family immigrated to America before World War I. Mary and one of her sisters immigrated soon after the war. She lived with her family before moving to Canada to marry John Neufeld. She remained in Canada and raised a family while her siblings had their families in the United States. This book contains short articles on her siblings as well as information on both her original family and her foster family as they left Russia and came to North America.

Alla Lizzie
Alla Lizzie

Author: Helen Eichstaedt

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 196

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Elisabeth Catherine Debus, daughter of John Debus (d. 1888) and Elisabeth Becker, was born in 1879 in Kukkus, Saratov, Russia. She married George Maser (1879-1853) in 1897 in Stahl, Russia. They had sixteen children. George emigrated in 1898 and she followed him in 1899. They settled in Nebraska and later moved to Michigan.